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Private
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 15, 2026 · 38 days left
- Award
- $4,000 – $12K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
About 120 fellowships pay $4,000 a month for one to three months of research at The Huntington in California. Graduate students, professors, working artists, creative writers and independent researchers can apply.
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Private
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 15, 2026 · 38 days left
- Award
- $25K – $50K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Funds scholars with a PhD to spend four to nine months doing research at The Huntington. Academic-year fellowships pay $50,000 and term fellowships pay $25,000.
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Private
National Humanities Center · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Jul 1, 2027 · due Oct 1, 2027
- Award
- Amount not specified
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
The National Humanities Center gives scholars a semester or year in residence in North Carolina to research and write. Emerging, mid-career and senior humanities scholars may apply. Faculty at HBCUs have an extra path through a UNCF/Mellon program.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Historical Commission · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Jan 10, 2027 · due about Feb 28, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Amount not specified
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 48
Matching grants for surveys, National Register nominations, preservation plans, and restoration of National Register-listed buildings with a public benefit. The grant reimburses 60% of costs and the applicant covers 40%.
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Private
National Fund for Sacred Places (Partners for Sacred Places / National Trust for Historic Preservation) · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Jan 12, 2027 · due Mar 3, 2027
- Award
- $50K – $500K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Matching grants help congregations repair historic houses of worship that serve their communities. Grants range from $50,000 to $500,000, plus training and planning help. Any faith tradition may apply.
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Foundation
James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Opens in the fall (the funder's words)
- Award
- Up to $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Gives mid-career historic preservation professionals up to $15,000 for original research or a design project. Fields include architecture, landscape, planning and architectural history. The project must help preservation in the U.S.
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Foundation
James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Fall of even years (the funder's words)
- Award
- Up to $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Gives an architect or other preservation professional up to $15,000 for a project that advances saving historic buildings in the U.S. It is offered every other year. Original ideas are valued most.
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Private
Folger Shakespeare Library (Folger Institute) · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Oct 15, 2026 · due Jan 15, 2027
- Award
- $4,000 – $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Pays scholars $5,000 a month in residence or $4,000 a month virtually for one to three months of research using Folger collections. Open to people with a terminal degree or PhD candidates who are all-but-dissertation.
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Private
National Film Preservation Foundation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Apr 24, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Amount not specified
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Nonprofit and public archives can get lab work paid to save old films. You first contact the foundation about your project. Television and video works are not eligible.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee State Library and Archives · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 6 – Aug 14, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $10K
Should we apply? · Get ready
Secretary of State grants of up to $10,000 that help official county or city archives (or a nonprofit legally authorized to keep local government records) buy archival shelving and supplies, pay for conservation or digitization, hire part-time help or...
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Private
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Mar 2, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $2,500 – $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Annual grants to save historic environments and revitalize community livability. Individuals and for-profits eligible only for National Historic Landmark projects. Winners must hold a paid National Trust Forum or Main Street membership before funds are released.
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Private
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Nov 3, 2026 – Feb 24, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $10K – $60K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Groups that hold rare audio or video recordings can get money to digitize them. Requests run from $10,000 to $60,000. The work must be done by an outside lab.
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Private
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about May 1, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $2,500 – $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Seed money for preservation planning and education projects in towns of 10,000 or fewer people. Annual deadline; application opens about six to eight weeks prior. Winners must hold a paid National Trust Forum or Main Street membership before funds are released.
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Private
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Mar 2, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $2,500 – $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Annual grants for preservation, restoration and interpretation of historic interiors. Individuals and for-profits eligible only for National Historic Landmark projects. Winners must hold a paid National Trust Forum or Main Street membership before funds...
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Private
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jan 13 – Feb 6, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $50K – $150K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Grants for historic places at least 50 years old significant to Black cultural heritage, for capital, planning, programming and organizational capacity. Applicants must own the site or have owner permission. Winners must hold a paid National Trust Forum or...
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Tennessee state
Tennessee State Library and Archives · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 6 – Aug 14, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ✓ No match required
Regrants of up to $5,000 from NHPRC money, run by the Tennessee Historical Records Advisory Board, for government bodies and nonprofits that hold permanent historical records. Funds can cover digitization technology, training, contracted conservation or...
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Private
Duke University Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Feb 27, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $1,500
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Pays up to $1,500 in travel costs for people who need to visit Duke's rare book library in person. Students, teachers, artists, writers, filmmakers and independent researchers can apply. You must live more than 100 miles from Durham, N.C.
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Private
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University) · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jun 1 – Aug 15, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $2,500 – $10K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Pays $5,000 a month for two weeks to two months of research in Yale library collections. Scholars, artists, writers and other researchers can apply. People enrolled in a degree program cannot apply.
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Private
New York Public Library (Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers) · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Sep 25, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $90K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
A year-long fellowship at the New York Public Library for scholars and writers, including novelists and poets. Fellows get a $90,000 stipend, an office and full library access. Research toward a degree is not eligible.
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Local
Grow Appalachia (Berea College), Appalachian Studies Association and Mid Atlantic Arts · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 10 – Aug 17, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ! Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 48 more counties
- ✓ No match required
This fellowship gives $5,000 to people who keep Appalachian food traditions alive. Cooks, bakers, seed savers, farmers, hunters and foragers can apply for their own work. You must live in an Appalachian county and be 18 or older.
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